00:00These are your BMF grades, because PFF grades are stupid.
00:05Defensively, you end up giving up 30 in this thing,
00:08but damn, it looked good early.
00:11You want to start with the D-line?
00:13You want to start on the back end?
00:15I'll grade your rush defense.
00:17I'll give it a C on rush defense.
00:19You held Jonathan Taylor to four yards per carry in the first half,
00:22which is kind of a win.
00:24Overall, though, when it was all said and done,
00:2620 totes, 95 yards, two touchdowns.
00:29That's not great, but then again,
00:31Jonathan Taylor is one of the top five backs in the league,
00:34so there is that.
00:35I think they got worn down at the end.
00:38Payne had a nice pop on one of the runs, so that was good.
00:43Injuries were a factor as well.
00:45I'll give it a C, rush defense, C.
00:48Yeah, I mean, I thought for Taylor,
00:54the holes started to get really big in the second half.
00:56I think you had a defense that got worn down,
00:59and you had a defense that a little bit demoralized, frankly.
01:05Fair enough.
01:06If you look at Washington's last four possessions offensively,
01:10it went punt, punt, downs, downs.
01:13So, like, the defense wasn't getting a lot of help.
01:17But specific to the rush defense, I think through four games,
01:21you can almost point to the rush defense as the thing this team is doing best.
01:25That was one of the best overall units going into this game.
01:29And could be good, you know, going forward.
01:31Well, you said rush D was a C?
01:34Okay.
01:35I'm fine with that because second half, Taylor kind of took over.
01:39And annoyingly, perhaps only anecdotally annoying,
01:44Daniel Jones got in with his legs.
01:45And it's just like, how many years does Daniel Jones have to get in
01:48with his legs against this team?
01:49That's what he does, though.
01:50He can run straight up and down.
01:53So that's the rush defense.
01:54Do you want to just do pass rush as its own entity then?
01:58Listen, I love what O-Way has given the team.
02:04Great purchase.
02:05And deserved at least one more holding call than he got.
02:09So, yeah, I think the pass rush is pretty good.
02:13They only finished with two sacks.
02:16But I thought they impacted.
02:18Did the fumble count as a sack?
02:20Probably not, honestly.
02:22I don't know.
02:22Did O-Way have a second sack?
02:25I'd have to look that up.
02:27I thought they impacted the Colts' pass game throughout the contest.
02:34Okay.
02:35You know what I mean?
02:35And, oh boy, here we go with the coffin again.
02:39But I think it's more important for a D-line to impact the quarterback
02:44consistently for four quarters than necessarily to have four sacks
02:48but give up 350 through the air.
02:50Like, I want consistent pass rush.
02:53I thought you had that.
02:54I'll give the pass rush maybe even a B.
02:57Okay.
03:00Linebacker play.
03:03I didn't break it down by position.
03:06All right.
03:06Well, tell me how you have it.
03:07I just had the run defense as a C and the pass defense.
03:14It's hard to grade because Daniel Jones was not good.
03:18Sanders Hill is still a disaster back there.
03:21He barely played, dude.
03:22I know.
03:22At least they recognize that.
03:25He's unplayable at this point, which is kind of bad because I don't think they went into the season.
03:29Three second-round picks in 2024.
03:31Johnny Newton out for the year.
03:32Mikey Sanders still is now effectively benched.
03:34Yeah.
03:35And Ben Sennett has maybe two catches through four games.
03:39Yeah.
03:40It's probably about a C, maybe a C+.
03:43I can't really get my arms around it because, like, you know, you give up, you know, 30-plus to
03:48the Colts.
03:48So, you know, what are you going to do?
03:50I thought Rasul Douglas has been really good.
03:53I thought Rasul Douglas had the interception, made a number of plays on this game.
03:56But he also, after a big hit on a third down, was doing some sort of celebration, like, 20 yards
04:03down the field.
04:04And the Colts lined up fast to go for it on fourth down.
04:07And Dan Quinn had to burn a timeout because Rasul Douglas was 20 yards down the field, I think, like,
04:11rolling around.
04:13I thought Fabian Moreau was fine.
04:15I think if, when Trey Amos ever gets back on the field, and Dan Quinn gave the most non-update
04:22update on that yesterday,
04:24I think their corners, Amik Robertson has been tremendous for this team.
04:29I thought Rasul Douglas played well.
04:31Corners played okay.
04:32The linebackers played okay.
04:35Safeties played okay.
04:36You know what I mean?
04:37Like, it was just, you got hit by these long drives.
04:42The only drive I thought they really underperformed was the field goal just before halftime.
04:48That was directly in front of me.
04:50And it was by far what I thought Daniel Jones looked the most under control and just picking his spots
04:56and just matriculating the ball down the field.
04:59Matriculate the ball down the field.
05:00I mean, they were getting short fields.
05:02I mean, their longest drive in scoring 30 points, they had a 46-yard touchdown drive and a 52-yard
05:13touchdown drive.
05:14Like, they never had to go 80.
05:16They never had to go 75 yards down the field.
05:19Like, they were just gifted positions over and over again.
05:25Zabe, lastly, we do a BMF award.
05:27I am guessing you have seen the film Pulp Fiction.
05:31Oh, yeah.
05:32So, Samuel L. Jackson's wallet, the one that says BMF on it.
05:35Yes, bad, you know what.
05:38Bad, you know what.
05:39Who gets a BMF award?
05:41You can have multiple winners.
05:42You can have no winners.
05:43I don't know that you have one from this ball game, but it's BMF award time.
05:49I'll give it to O-Way.
05:50Okay.
05:51I think that's fair.
05:53I thought O-Way was quite good.
05:55I'm giving mine to Jeremy Reeves.
05:57Okay.
05:58Just to almost get your finger snapped off and then come back in.
06:02Pretty damn impressive.
06:02That is pretty awesome.
06:05Drew Stevens, I thought, was good.
06:07Kicking off a unique pitch.
06:09Okay.
06:09Made both his field goals.
06:10Made his extra point.
06:12I joked yesterday with BMF.
06:14I'm like, you know, after all we did for soccer people to give them real grass in our country,
06:19we go over there and they go, oh, yeah, no, you can't play on a real grass.
06:23We're going to let you play on the fake stuff on the floor.
06:26Did a time-lapse of how they convert that stadium, that high-tech stadium from their
06:31soccer pitch to...
06:32It was a cool stadium.
06:33And I think of the three international games.
06:37I certainly enjoyed Tottenham more than Madrid.
06:41Madrid is massive.
06:43I'm saying specific game day stadium experience.
06:45But you're farther away from the field.
06:47It looked like this was a fairly intimate stadium.
06:50It was.
06:50And I think it's...
06:52So the way it was explained to me by some Europeans was like...
06:55So they played the first game at Wembley, which was just incredible.
06:58It was cool.
06:59But it's aging.
07:00Yeah, I think when we were there...
07:02They've updated it, but it's an older structure.
07:04When we were there, they had just completed the reno.
07:07So it was nice.
07:08Okay.
07:08But it's massive.
07:10It's built for the Olympics.
07:11It's built for the track.
07:12Like, it's just a different experience.
07:17Madrid, they've done an incredible reno on it, but it's old, dude.
07:20And there's like a...
07:21I got lost for a while in there because there's like a zillion different tunnels and hallways.
07:25The vibe at Tottenham...
07:27Like, if you had told me we were covering the game in Nashville or just like some other
07:35random NFL city from a straight stadium layout, it would have felt pretty similar.
07:39Okay.
07:40So I did really like the stadium.
07:44The command...
07:45It was a commander's home game, which was unique in that the video boards, you know,
07:51the third downs.
07:52Like, if you closed your eyes, it sounded like you were at Northwest Stadium.
07:58So the commanders had their game day ops guys running all the between plays, half times,
08:03that kind of stuff.
08:04Now, I don't know that they actually sent their people over or they just provided the
08:08LED boards.
08:09But it was skewed that way.
08:11Oh, yeah.
08:12And dude, the crowd was phenomenal.
08:14Yeah, I was going to say that every article I read said that commander fans dominated the
08:19stands.
08:20Fans travel well.
08:21It's partly why they get, you know, they've got tabbed again because last year's trip to
08:25Spain was so successful.
08:26The fans travel well, certainly.
08:28But there are also a number...
08:30And I want to make sure I give these people credit.
08:32Like...
08:32Beamage said you met a cabbie who's a big commander fan whose cab was all tricked out.
08:37That blows my mind, by the way.
08:39That's a significant amount of British and European-based Burgundy and gold fans.
08:45That's crazy.
08:46Now, how significant is that?
08:48Is it 10,000 people?
08:49Is it 1,500 that show up everywhere?
08:52Is it 100,000?
08:53I don't know the number.
08:54But there should be none given the A, lack of success other than 2024 with the franchise
09:01and B, the turmoil in the name as it fell down a flight of stairs from a placeholder football
09:08team to Commanders to now a half-uniform reboot of Commanders.
09:14And yet it's not.
09:15And I think some of it's power of the NFL, but I think, much like fans here, like, once...
09:22My wife texted me during the second half of the game that my seven-year-old looked at
09:28her and said, Mommy, I don't think we're going to the Super Bowl.
09:31Oh.
09:31And I think...
09:33She realized that four games in.
09:36I said to my wife, I was like, oh, poor girl.
09:38And Lauren's just like, yeah, she doesn't know what it's like being a Skins fan yet.
09:42And I think...
09:43Oh, my.
09:43But that collective shared pain that sadly has been the reality for 30 years, I think there
09:52are people on that side of the pond that feel it and embrace it and just live with it
09:55also.
09:56So, which is really interesting.
09:58I think there might be a lot of fans over there that look at the NFL and say, hey, I
10:01want to get into this.
10:02I need to pick a team.
10:03Let me make sure to pick a team that I can't be accused of being a frontrunner for.
10:07Like, I'm not going to be a Chiefs fan.
10:09And maybe they think, I have a better chance of landing in Washington, D.C., the largest
10:14major close city other than New York to London.
10:17So, let me pick them in case I ever go.
10:19So, question about your daughter, though, when she was five back in 24 and they were
10:25on the step of the doorstep of the Super Bowl, was she all geared up like, we're going
10:30to go?
10:30This is going to be so exciting.
10:31All in.
10:32Do you know Halloween is what?
10:34Three, four weeks out?
10:35Yes, sir.
10:36She's debating between two costumes.
10:39A witch and Jaden Daniels.
10:43She loves Jaden.
10:44I feel like, I mean, they're kids.
10:46They're all in.
10:47Are you going to lean her in one direction?
10:49No.
10:49She gets, she can be a witch wearing a Jaden jersey for all I care.
10:52Whatever she wants to be.
10:54Um.
